{"id":161,"date":"2007-07-06T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/general\/fat-buddha-and-regular-buddha"},"modified":"2007-07-06T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T10:20:00","slug":"fat-buddha-and-regular-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/general\/fat-buddha-and-regular-buddha","title":{"rendered":"Fat Buddha and regular buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever felt that the fat buddha that you can buy in various shops was somehow a little too common, too vulgar when compared to the serene, calm and wise Buddha that you are normally used to? The Straight Dope has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/columns\/070706.html\">answer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fat, laughing guy isn&#8217;t the capital-B Buddha but a lesser buddha called Hotei (or Miroku or Miluo or Budai or Putai, depending on language). The model for Hotei was (probably) a cheerful, overweight Chinese zen monk or healer who wandered the countryside helping people circa 950 AD. In Asia the belly is one&#8217;s spiritual center and source of power, so rubbing the laughing buddha&#8217;s belly brings good luck, and is as close to achieving buddha nature as most of us will get.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s some more information that you did no have (and probably did not want):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The earlobes [of any Buddha statue] are elongated, partly to indicate the Buddha is all-hearing and partly as a reminder of the heavy earrings that weighed them down before Siddhartha renounced material things to seek enlightenment.<\/li>\n<li>The Buddha&#8217;s head is usually enlarged (sometimes by a large bump on top) to symbolize wisdom; a jewel in the bump denotes brilliance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever felt that the fat buddha that you can buy in various shops was somehow a little too common, too vulgar when compared to the serene, calm and wise Buddha that you are normally used to? The Straight Dope has an answer: The fat, laughing guy isn&#8217;t the capital-B Buddha but a lesser &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/general\/fat-buddha-and-regular-buddha\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fat Buddha and regular buddha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}